How much does Elisha V Ashton Trust UW give?

Elisha V Ashton Trust UW reported 16 grants totaling $997,242 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Elisha V Ashton Trust UW fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (36%), Health (28%), Philanthropy (14%).

Who are Elisha V Ashton Trust UW's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Home for Little Wanderers Inc ($1.0M), Children's Hospital Corporation ($434k), Boston Seaman's Friend Society Inc ($208k).

Does Elisha V Ashton Trust UW fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Elisha V Ashton Trust UW accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Elisha V Ashton Trust UW?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.

Where is Elisha V Ashton Trust UW based?

Elisha V Ashton Trust UW is based in MA.

Elisha V Ashton Trust UW

Elisha V Ashton Trust UW at a glance

· Private foundation

Elisha V Ashton Trust UW

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$997k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$235k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$1.3MHealth$984kPhilanthropy$483kArts & Culture$161kEnvironment$161kAnimals$161kPublic Safety & Disaster$161kInternational$161k

02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k13 grants · $611k
$50k–250k3 grants · $386k

$46,985

Median grant

States reached

$21M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
The Home for Little Wanderers	$234,922
Boston Children's Hospital	$93,969
Boston Pilot's Relief Society	$57,554
Goddard House	$46,985
Managers of Boston Port & Seamen's Aid Society	$46,985
Dimock Community Health Center	$46,985
Boston Fatherless & Widows Society	$46,985
Boston Seaman's Friend Society Inc	$46,985
Tufts Medical Center	$46,984
Massachusetts Medical Benevolent Society	$46,984
The Chickering Foundation	$46,984
The Boston Marine Society	$46,984
The Fragment Society	$46,984
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary	$46,984
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals	$46,984

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.6M · 17 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.6M

Still filing today

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +108%
CH
Children's Hospital Corporation
6× · 2020–2025 · $434k · revenue +76%
BS
BOSTON SEAMAN'S FRIEND SOCIETY INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $208k · revenue +141%

Funded once

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Boston Foundation

Philanthropy

Historic Boston Incorporated

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Portsmouth General Hospital Foundation

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Meor of Boston Inc

Religion

Massachusetts E-Health Collaborative

—

New England Circle D/B/a Global Citizens Circle

Civil Rights

Ocean State Cancer Crushers

—

Greater Boston Council On Alcoholism Inc

Philanthropy

Harvard Club of Boston Foundation

Education

Massachusetts Corps of Fire Chaplains

Public Safety & Disaster

Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco

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Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc

Employment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dimock Community Health Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Fragment Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

12/14

Grantees still filing

13/14

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,834,870Human Services$1,247,522Health$1,058,240Animals$207,920Philanthropy$207,920

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA3.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Elisha V Ashton Trust UW funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elisha V Ashton Trust UW. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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